> Alas, now that I am making 2 hard drives with the exact same F7 on > them LABEL is causing me all kinds of problems. Even the F7 Rescue > complained :-) You used dd so you copied the label. Using tools like rsync -a to make copies would have been saner. > So the only fix is for me to go back to exact partition names so I > can continue to get my understanding of dd complete. I think dd will > work fine IFF the partition your sending data to is larger than the one > it is coming from, and you do NOT put a file system in the destination > partition. dd will byte copy so you get exact copies in size, label, attributes, the lot. tune2fs -L DerekTheDisk /dev/whatever will change the label on that volume to DerekTheDisk (or FreddieFlash or whatever you put for up to 16 chars) Alan
